A new report by Zero Waste Scotland has argued that recycling at home and tackling food waste are key in the fight against climate change.

Local authorities and housing associations need to have a closer relationship if the UK is to meet increasing housing needs.

Newcastle City Council has announced that the building materials taken from high rise blocks in the region have passed fire safety tests.

New research has argued that government welfare policy is hindering local authority efforts to tackle homelessness.

The government has awarded £22.8 million to help communities develop plans to give them a real say in the development of their area.

The government’s focus on meeting market demand, rather than prioritise genuine local housing needs, is ‘perpetuating’ the housing crisis.

David Willetts has revealed that millennials are spending three times more of their income on housing than their grandparents generation.

Sajid Javid has announced a new approach to address how many homes each local area needs and how many they will need in future years.

Half of areas have more affordable housing

House prices in over half of local authority areas are more affordable now than they were in 2007.

Grenfell Tower fire inquiry to open

The public inquiry into the Grenfell Tower fire, which killed at least 80 people in June, will begin on 14 September.

Southwark Council has granted planning permission for hundreds of new council homes as part of a programme to build 11,000 in the borough.

The LGA has said that specialist elderly homes will need to increase by 400,000 units in less than 20 years to match increasing demand.

Glasgow City Council’s £100 million Tomorrow's Residential and Day Care Programme has seen the Riverside Care Home in Dalmarnock open its doors.

Housing Minister Alok Sharma has opened the UK’s first ever ‘plot shop’ in the town of Bicester.

Sadiq Khan has urged the government to allow London’s boroughs to increase council tax bills for high-value homes that are left empty.

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